Category: visualization

Thanks to our new student intern Bingying, we’ve done some additional cleaning of our circulation data, removing duplicate transactions, which were a small part of the data, but significant for some texts. New circulation modeling results have been posted and the GitHub archive has been updated.

Tim Zhang spent some time experimenting with visualizations of the PCAs and circulation numbers for several recent One Book One Chicago choices. You can see his complete interactive visualization in the “Results” section.… Read more

According to the U.S. Department of Labor American Time Use report, in 2014 women spent an average of 6 minutes or more reading for pleasure than men. People aged 75 and older recorded the most amount of time reading by far — an average 61.2─67 minutes per day. People aged 15─19 and 25─44 read the least, an average 5.4─11.4 minutes a day. In a breakdown by race, Whites reported leisure reading three and a half times more than Hispanics or Latinos. The latter spent the least amount of time reading for personal interest, 5.4 minutes on weekdays and 6 minutes on weekends. Unemployed people … Read more

According to a 2014 American Time Use Survey, on average people aged 15 and older spent more than three-fourths of their leisure time – a total of 234 minutes (77.4% of their free time) on any given day – either watching TV, socializing and communicating, playing games, or using the computer. They spent only 19 minutes a day on leisure reading, 6.2% of their free time. The rest (52 minutes) was spent relaxing, thinking, or on other leisure activities.